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...pentad of 1923-27, U. S. investors paid $34,806,783,000 for 36,965 different issues of bonds and stocks. Of these 34,995 issues were bonds sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $1,000 a Second | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...XXVIII Eucharistic Congress comes to Chicago for a pentad of ecstasy the third week of June. Hundreds of thousands, at least a million, pilgrims will come. Lake boats and hotels and Pullman cars fitted with altars will transform themselves into ephemeral churches. Every Catholic family in the city has prepared itself to care for guests. So far as possible, foreigners (for thousands will come from abroad) will be housed with co-nationalists. The clergy will bunk in rectories?and in hotels. Honest innkeepers and food-purveyors have promised to maintain their regular charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bouquet | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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